Download time needs help

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When my organization redesigned its site to include long JavaScript menus,
slideshow, and scroller, the download time for the home page went from under
one second to several seconds. The ceo wants to keep the new look.
I added plain text links to 2 alternative navigation systems (an
alphabetical index and a contact directory). How can I make sure the plain
text links load quickly to make the page usable, even if the menus, etc.,
take longer?
Is there anything else I could do to optimize download time?
The url is www.nacc.edu
Thanks for any advice!!!
 
You also need to view the page in Firefox. It's not compatible.
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| When my organization redesigned its site to include long JavaScript menus,
| slideshow, and scroller, the download time for the home page went from
under
| one second to several seconds. The ceo wants to keep the new look.
| I added plain text links to 2 alternative navigation systems (an
| alphabetical index and a contact directory). How can I make sure the plain
| text links load quickly to make the page usable, even if the menus, etc.,
| take longer?
| Is there anything else I could do to optimize download time?
| The url is www.nacc.edu
| Thanks for any advice!!!
 
It looks pretty bad ;-)
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| Woops. Is it usable at all?
| I'm getting Firefox.
|
| "Tom Willett" wrote:
|
| > You also need to view the page in Firefox. It's not compatible.
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| > Tom Willett
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| > ---
| > FrontPage Support:
| > http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
| > ===
| > | > | When my organization redesigned its site to include long JavaScript
menus,
| > | slideshow, and scroller, the download time for the home page went from
| > under
| > | one second to several seconds. The ceo wants to keep the new look.
| > | I added plain text links to 2 alternative navigation systems (an
| > | alphabetical index and a contact directory). How can I make sure the
plain
| > | text links load quickly to make the page usable, even if the menus,
etc.,
| > | take longer?
| > | Is there anything else I could do to optimize download time?
| > | The url is www.nacc.edu
| > | Thanks for any advice!!!
| >
| >
| >
 
It looks awful!
I'm working on some aspects right now.
Any other thoughts about download time?
 
Wow, that took me a full half minute to download completely. Let's start
this thing off. Do you know what your server's connection speeds are?
Because that was painful.

My recommendation would be, if you can afford to, bring down the background
picture quality down in Photoshop. To do this, you save a copy of it, and
reduce the quality with the slide bar when it pops up. Sometimes there's a
bit of degredation in jpgs when you do that though, so be careful. My other
recommendation would be to take some of the images and scripts OUT of the
preloader. I say this because if you're a regular visitor to the site, you
can still navigate the site and get things done without waiting for the
images. Also, that scrolling marquee... though cool, is taking up a lot of
time to load. Dunno what you could do with that, but that's what I observed.

Oh, by the way, check the rollover color of the Financial Aid button, it
doesn't match the others.
 
Tom, I have 2 different classes of links with their own colors and hover
colors. Does this not work with Firefox?
 
One reason it glitches in FF and to some extent in IE7 is because you have
no DOCTYPE in the head so they are going into quirks mode

But yeah, the download time is really horrible...

It would take 5 minutes or more on a dial up modem
 
I really appreciate the analysis.
How do I take images and scripts "out of the preloader"?
 
There are two things. For FP created buttons, you can look in the header for
the function: function FP_preloadImgs(). But that's for buttons, and you're
using javascript menus in general, so that won't work for you. Most other
images are preloaded in the BODY tag with the onLoad.
onLoad="FP_preloadImgs()"

If you delete the pictures you want in there, then they won't pre-load on
loading the BODY. If you don't have anything there, then maybe you should
consider preloading them all.

At least, I think that's the way it works. preloading isn't exactly my forte.
 
Thanks, I'm going to read up on this.

redemption2 said:
There are two things. For FP created buttons, you can look in the header for
the function: function FP_preloadImgs(). But that's for buttons, and you're
using javascript menus in general, so that won't work for you. Most other
images are preloaded in the BODY tag with the onLoad.
onLoad="FP_preloadImgs()"

If you delete the pictures you want in there, then they won't pre-load on
loading the BODY. If you don't have anything there, then maybe you should
consider preloading them all.

At least, I think that's the way it works. preloading isn't exactly my forte.
Click to expand...
 
Depends on what you are doing. The most common with EW is probably XHTML 1.0
transitional

Otherwise probably HTML 4.01.

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